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Julie Setele

@juliesetele.bsky.social

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Librarian, sociologist, zinester. Reproductive justice, prison abolition, books (especially romance novels), cats, and women’s soccer (Gotham, Chelsea, USWNT). Free zines at juliesetele.com Free Palestine. Land Back. Black Lives Matter. They/them.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi. I’m Julie. I make zines about a wide assortment of topics. I post them all for free on my website.

My most popular zine has been “AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto” #AI #InfoLiteracy #zine #CriticalThinking #ClimateCrisis #SupportArtists

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AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto

Updated 10/8 with slightly revised formatting. This should print and fold nicer now! References are linked below. AI is very bad, actually – revised formattingDownload References Chayka, K. (…

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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 3d

Everybody who knows somebody in higher education, or anybody who benefited from it, should sign this petition.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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RITTÆR @rittaer.bsky.social · 1d

Quote by Toni Morrison: "“Fascism talks ideology, but it is really just marketing—marketing for power. It is recognizable by its need to purge, by the strategies it uses to purge, and by its terror of truly democratic agendas. It is recognizable by its determination to convert all public services to private entrepreneurship, all nonprofit organizations to profit-making ones—so that the narrow but protective chasm between governance and business disappears. It changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own. It changes parenting into panicking—so that we vote against the interests of our own children; against their health care, their education, their safety from weapons. And in effecting these changes it produces the perfect capitalist, one who is willing to kill a human being for a product (a pair of sneakers, a jacket, a car) or kill generations for control of products (oil, drugs, fruit, gold).”

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent!

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I should note that I edited the text lightly, not omitting anything, but instead adding emphasis to certain words so as to maintain visual interest in what is otherwise a wall of text.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 1d

Here are the essays in non-minizine form: inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 1d

I converted a couple Toni Morrison essays into minizines, available as free downloads here: juliesetele.com/2025/09/24/t...

Fight fascism. Fight racism. Resist!

Two minizines rest against a bunch of old books. The minizines are essays by Toni Morrison: “Peril” (2009) and “Racism and Fascism” (1995).

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 1d

My (academic) library has access to the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database, and I searched it for this topic. Here’s the best I could find. I think only the first (Marion) is a picture book.

CLCD record for *When Marion Copied* (2006)

CLCD record for *How I survived middle school: Cheat sheet*

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 5d

Same deal (digital, but not a PDF) — issuu.com/osupridecent...

The HPV Vaccine Zine

A zine discussing why to get the HPV vaccine and where you can access it, with a focus on the Corvallis area.

issuu.com

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 5d

A digital zine (though not available as a PDF) — madetosave.org/2021/08/30/v...

Vac-Zine: COVID-19 Vaccine Equity - Made to Save

Our first Vac-Zine discusses vaccine equity and why it's important for the current COVID-19 pandemic and as a practice of reforming our healthcare.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 5d

Physical zine to purchase: decolonizationcoven.com/zineshop/p/3...

Vaccines: A Clear Guide to How they Work in the Body Zine — Decolonization Coven

By LMF What do vaccines do? Well, this zine gives an overview of how they impact and support your immune system. Purchase comes with one (1) Zine. We ship Zines on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh, good question. @newlevant.bsky.social ‘s covid zine touches on vaccines, but isn’t focused on them. (newlevant.com/covidzine) let me see what else I can find

COVID zine | Hazel Newlevant

Read comics by cartoonist and illustrator Hazel Newlevant—the creator of If This Be Sin, Chainmail Bikini, No Ivy League and more.

newlevant.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6d

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 7d

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Tennille Nicole Allen @tennillenallen.blacksky.app · 7d

There are multiple assignments I’ve retired now that I can’t recommend a number of federal websites or most major newspapers in good faith.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8d

No lie.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Please don't ask me if I am surprised when I am angry about shit. It's not helpful, and it's really annoying.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 11d

Know Your Rights with ICE

New free minizine adapted from a 16-page document put out by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Please share widely.

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Know Your Rights with ICE

Free “Know Your Rights with ICE” minizine! The NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs puts out these 16-page PDF documents with “Know Your Rights” info, available in …

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Alex DiFrancesco @alessandrostardust.bsky.social · 17d

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 19d

Can’t stop, won’t stop

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 21d

This Sunday, Sept. 21, I will be presenting twice at Queer Zest Zine Fest, a free online zine fest.

At noon (Eastern), I’ll do a one-hour livestream chatting about and reading from my zines.

Then, at 4pm, I’ll moderate a panel of zine librarians.

Join us live! Link in next post

Screenshot of my presentation, with the featured slide showcasing my name and a collage of various stuff, including a heart, a raised fist, a black cat, a Celtic symbol, a megaphone, a sun, a flower, a camera, a pomegranate, a crow or raven, and a soccer ball.

Sunday, Sept. 21

12-1pm eastern time: Julie Setele

2pm: how to make stickers at home with Hikarii

4-5pm: zine librarians panel with Julie Setele

A rainbow-themed “meet the artist” page for Julie Setele.

ABOUT ME
Hi, my name is Julie (they/them). I'm a librarian, sociologist, and zinester.
I make zines about soccer, queerness, and being human. My zines are available as free digital downloads on my website.
Free Palestine!

CONTACT
web: juliesetele.com
IG: jujubeees.zines
email: juliesetele@gmail.com

FUN FACTS
• I have two cats, Eris and Frassy
• I love arts and crafts
• I read a lot, especially romance and sci-fi
• I am trained in Irish dance
• I support reproductive justice, prison abolition, and Black Lives Matter

A cat is caught mid-yawn and looks fierce while lying next to three “Bi+ Icons” minizines. The minizine has a rainbow with a heart on it. The bottom one is colored in the pansexual flag colors. The middle one is uncolored. The top one is bisexual flag colors.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 21d

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

www.nytimes.com

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